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Originally Posted by Coys1882
I've been hearing recently that a brand new line of Video cards are coming out in October which should see the price of mid-range cards more than capable of running BF3 should come down in price.
I just recently bought a i5 2500k processor and I'm loving it. Probably grab the nVidia 560TI just before release.
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Remember to get a P67 or P68 based motherboard for that i5 2500K otherwise the "K" part of that CPU is wasted and you could have just gone with the regular i5 2500.
The new cards are AMD's 7xxx series and may or may not arrive in the fall. Regardless, their performance will not be significantly higher than the 6xxx series. It will be like the case of the 6xxx series compared to the 5xxx series. The speeds are mostly the same. They just scale the numbers around. The real value is if the new line brings the prices of old cards down as new cards are always overpriced for what they are.
IE: the current top of the line single core card is the 6970 which costs up to $400 retail after taxes. For $200 I can buy a used 5870 that is almost exactly fast (if not faster if it overclocks well).
